Fellow Daoist, Have You Paid Your Taxes?

To celebrate becoming a certified tax agent, Gu Jinjin went clubbing, only to have her fun turn to disaster when she tripped and fell into the world of cultivation.

She became a rogue cultivator with mediocre spiritual roots, no sect, and not a penny to her name.

No System, no wise old mentor living in her pocket, and no divine goddess reincarnation. Gu Jinjin could practically see how her story would end:

She'd either die as collateral damage in the epic love story of some immortal or demon lord's spoiled offspring, or become a stepping stone on the path to godhood for some chosen one.

Then one day, her neighbor rushed in, eyes shining with excitement:

"Remember how the other day, True Lord Lingxiao killed a great demon at the Nascent Soul stage and chopped off its wings?"

"The Heavenly Court Tax Bureau valued those wings at two hundred thousand top-grade spirit stones and wants Lingxiao to pay fifty thousand spirit stones in taxes! His Dao companion was so furious, they kicked him three thousand miles away. Hilarious!"

Gu Jinjin: "Didn't he avoid the taxes?"

Neighbor: "What do you mean, avoid the taxes? Who can make sense of the Tax Bureau's hundred thousand volumes of tax rules?"

Gu Jinjin quietly began packing her bags.

Neighbor: "Hey, where are you going?"

Gu Jinjin flashed eight pearly white teeth. "I just found my path to wealth."

Lingxiao is nine hundred years old.

There are over two hundred thousand youngsters in his sect who could be counted as disciples or grand-disciples of his.

So he swore never to take another disciple, not even if they had phoenix blood or were descended from the gods. Nothing would change his mind!

Then one day, a quiet, mild-mannered young cultivator showed up at his door and asked, "Interested in legal tax avoidance? My service fee is only one percent."

Lingxiao: ?

Later, he did the math. A one percent cut was still pretty expensive! Maybe he should just take her as a disciple instead?!

Xuanheng is the young lord of the dragon clan and the Heavenly Court's biggest creditor. He gets half of every tax payment. He spends his days lounging around and collecting rent, living the good life.

Until one day, the Tax Bureau starts "missing rent" again and again. When he looks into it, he discovers that some young cultivator has started a tax-avoidance business.

This is outrageous!

Xuanheng storms over at once.

Gu Jinjin takes in the drenched young man (the dragon clan makes it rain whenever they're displeased) in plain clothes (with dragon scales, who needs magical robes?):

"Want some freshly made candied sweet potatoes?"

Xuanheng, the dessert fanatic: "...Sure."

Reading Guide

1. A lighthearted, everyday-life story.

2. Xuanheng is the love interest. The romance takes up about twenty percent of the story.

Clever, composed human heroine who just wants to earn enough to get by

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Money-loving, stingy dragon hero with unmatched power

The blurb was archived by email on October 15, 2025.

Theme: Everyone is born with a talent to put to use.